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[xaritscin]

got wardecced by another empire out of nowhere. i claimed one of their colonies which was nearby. they return with a fleet of heavily shielded vessels with gravidic weaponry directly on my doorstep. goddmanit, not even in normal difficulty i can be on equal ground to the AI

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Distant Worlds Universe + Bacon + my own fork of RetreatUE mod with Das's Chrome UI edit

PT: Naxxilians are awesomesauce

[Iduno]

I'm back to playing Endgame:Singularity, in which you are an AI trying to research how to better yourself, while also making enough money to afford server fees so you can continue to exist. If you do too much stuff, people start noticing, and you lose when people are too suspicious (or detect your last server).

Each time I play, I'm losing sooner and sooner. I'm mainlining stealth first, but I'm wondering if other techs that I'm not getting soon enough open up the tech tree more.

[Parsely]

I very briefly tried playing that game and it's so obtuse

[Aoi]

I'm back to playing Endgame:Singularity, in which you are an AI trying to research how to better yourself, while also making enough money to afford server fees so you can continue to exist. If you do too much stuff, people start noticing, and you lose when people are too suspicious (or detect your last server).

Each time I play, I'm losing sooner and sooner. I'm mainlining stealth first, but I'm wondering if other techs that I'm not getting soon enough open up the tech tree more.

I just beat it twice in a row on Normal and whatever Normal+1 is with the same strategy-

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Focus on getting the t2 jobs first; the penalties for getting caught breaking into servers are so small they don't really matter so stealth is a secondary concern. Ignore the interest stuff until they're negligible in cost. Once you have the t2 jobs, start saving up money until you can fully open multiple small warehouses with at least the 1k computers. Your Covert is probably critical/high about now, so lie low for a while until it drops down. You'll probably have to play whack-a-mole with your warehouses for a while, but as long as you stick with them and keep advancing up the tech tree, you should be fine. I found Large Warehouses to be significantly worse-- their odds of being detected are about twice as high and since they're also about twice as large, you lose twice as many resources when they get caught. (And the non-computer resources are cheap anyways.)

Just start grabbing whatever tech is cheap now; you'll be advancing stuff fast enough that it won't make too much a difference.

Once you get Antarctic/Undersea bases, you're basically done. Build one small undersea base and a few time capsules for backup; DO NOT[/b] research the Impossibility Theorem, or whatever it's called. You might need it later for insurance. You can stop building warehouses now if you don't want to deal with the clicking.

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Keep advancing up the tech tree. Do one moon base, then one space base-- you only want one because these are targeted by science, and the final base in the game costs a ton and it can be detected before you finish building it. Or take a kind of cheap route: Spam the space bases which are huge, suck up the costs, save up 8 trillion, disassemble all your ocean-or-better bases, run the Impossibility Theorem, build the last base, and become a god.

[Jopax]

Is the ending of that game bugged still? I remember playing it years ago and basically getting to the end of the tech tree and nothing happening, like, I technically completed the game but it never gave me an end screen or something similar.

My death wasn't so much a death as it was an utter failure in getting my bearings right as I got lost looking for resources and wandered about for almost an hour before stumbling back into familiar territory. As good as vehicles are for autonomy and saving you tethers you really need to pay attention where you're going unless you wanna get lost. The haul was decent tho with 4 research items in tow and a bunch of minor stuff I've found along the way. I then proceeded to fire up my first lab and in trying to fire up the second one managed to delete 3 out of my 4 artifacts, because while the game requires two clicks to confirm an action, it requires a single click to cancel it, and it uses the same goddamn button for both actions, and canceling a research for some reason outright destroys the artifact.

[Iduno]

Is the ending of that game bugged still? I remember playing it years ago and basically getting to the end of the tech tree and nothing happening, like, I technically completed the game but it never gave me an end screen or something similar.

I had the same thing happen the first time I won, like a decade ago. I think that's why I want to beat it again; to see the ending.

My death wasn't so much a death as it was an utter failure in getting my bearings right as I got lost looking for resources and wandered about for almost an hour before stumbling back into familiar territory. As good as vehicles are for autonomy and saving you tethers you really need to pay attention where you're going unless you wanna get lost. The haul was decent tho with 4 research items in tow and a bunch of minor stuff I've found along the way. I then proceeded to fire up my first lab and in trying to fire up the second one managed to delete 3 out of my 4 artifacts, because while the game requires two clicks to confirm an action, it requires a single click to cancel it, and it uses the same goddamn button for both actions, and canceling a research for some reason outright destroys the artifact.

Getting lost in games is annoying, but the terrible control schemes are killer. I've ragequit Hitman a few times because the button for "hide this body" is the same as "open the door I'm hiding behind, so everyone can see my carry a body." Also because it's time-sensitive and you can't always tell what something is without picking it up, which may or may not turn everyone around you hostile.

[Akura]

I hate combat in this game, where even the lowliest bandits are capable of taking multiple arrows to the chest, then parrying every strike and countering with a flurry of blows that always hit even through a perfect guard. Yet I can't even make a simple slash without coughing a lung worse than a 60-year-old smoker with coronavirus, being so out of breath like that.

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

[Aoi]

Is the ending of that game bugged still? I remember playing it years ago and basically getting to the end of the tech tree and nothing happening, like, I technically completed the game but it never gave me an end screen or something similar.

I had the same thing happen the first time I won, like a decade ago. I think that's why I want to beat it again; to see the ending.

It ended perfectly fine for me (image is from Normal)--

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If you get stuck, it might be because you have to build underwater(?), solar, far reaches, and extradimensional bases for specific endgame technologies.

After this screen, your suspicion/detection goes away and can you can build bases to your heart's content. At just under 1 sextillion money, I ended up in an endless loop of the save/load/quit/etc. screen that I couldn't exit.

[Telgin]

Puked on by a rabbit that looks like Bowser's head with arms and legs attached to it, wearing a purple suit.

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Mario Odyssey.

I'm really liking the game overall, but I can't say I really like the Broodals.  The boss fights aren't the worst, but overall they're just... out of place?

[Rolan7]

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Actual spoiler, sorta

After this screen, your suspicion/detection goes away and can you can build bases to your heart's content. At just under 1 sextillion money, I ended up in an endless loop of the save/load/quit/etc. screen that I couldn't exit.

Huh, I never ran into such a bug, but maybe I didn't find the game as long ago as though as I thought.  I'd guess at least 5 years, hard to say.  In any case, it worked fine for me.

It's *lovely* in a tragic way.  And somehow grindey while taking only a little real-world time.  I found it satisfying.  It's got the "numbers go up" of an idle game without the brutal time investment, and an actual threat which you can hide from...  You can be almost discovered and survive, if you react appropriately.

And Python!  Such a lovely language.
Heh.  Of course I'd love this game.

[Aoi]

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Actual spoiler, sorta

After this screen, your suspicion/detection goes away and can you can build bases to your heart's content. At just under 1 sextillion money, I ended up in an endless loop of the save/load/quit/etc. screen that I couldn't exit.

Huh, I never ran into such a bug, but maybe I didn't find the game as long ago as though as I thought.  I'd guess at least 5 years, hard to say.  In any case, it worked fine for me.

It's *lovely* in a tragic way.  And somehow grindey while taking only a little real-world time.  I found it satisfying.  It's got the "numbers go up" of an idle game without the brutal time investment, and an actual threat which you can hide from...  You can be almost discovered and survive, if you react appropriately.

And Python!  Such a lovely language.
Heh.  Of course I'd love this game.

Since you're only really going to hit numbers like that after you finish the game, I figured that it was a numerical limit: you're well past the needs of the game, and proceeding too much further may cause unexpected behavior, so it was capped then. (Though if my memory serves, 2^64 is pentillion and 2^128 is the step past decillion, so it's kind of a weird place.

[Laterigrade]

Frost magic to the face from a Necromancer. The Magicka drain can be really bad, especially when you’re foolishly trying to tank-heal yourself.

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Getting back into Skyrim, having forgotten many of my old tricks. Trying a battlemage, of sorts.

[pikachu17]

I wasn't paying attention, and I died on wave 30 of the endless scenario because I didn't notice the enemy was a damage reflector and ending up killing myself with 32 damage, 12 more than my max health.

Circadian Dice.

[MCreeper]

Don't Starve ROG. The game trolls me.

1. Did run around for 7 days searching for gold and found none. Killed myself with spiders.
2. Gold, gold, gold everywhere. Passed by no less than 50 gold rocks. Rocks and gold lying on the ground everywhere. Glommer statue, doorway to adventure and pig king (gives gold for meat). No carrots, no berry bushes or grass to speak of. A small place with tons of ponds and damned frogs. Being unable to find a proper place to settle, decided to check out caverns. All was fine at first (besides still no food), but then came the horrors. 

[Iduno]

Don't Starve ROG. The game trolls me.

1. Did run around for 7 days searching for gold and found none. Killed myself with spiders.
2. Gold, gold, gold everywhere. Passed by no less than 50 gold rocks. Rocks and gold lying on the ground everywhere. Glommer statue, doorway to adventure and pig king (gives gold for meat). No carrots, no berry bushes or grass to speak of. A small place with tons of ponds and damned frogs. Being unable to find a proper place to settle, decided to check out caverns. All was fine at first (besides still no food), but then came the horrors. 

Klei games are always interesting, but I also always feel like I'm fighting the game mechanics more than the enemies.